We got the munchkin a little goody bag for Valentine's Day - stickers, bubbles, a little puzzle, etc included.  She seemed to like it.  She LOVES bubbles, and puzzles, and she cracks me up with stickers -- she likes to stick them to her face and/or belly.  And then comes to show us and cracks up.  Lol silly little goofball! <3

A couple months ago, I had the pleasure of getting to take my beautiful best friends engagement pictures.  {Congrats to Alicia & Adam!!} They have little Addy, so we had Dominic and Kayden tag along to play with Addy for some of the shots.  It was such a great day to hang out with some great friends and run around outside.  Yay for love ;-D!

Dominic and Kayders being my testers ;).

Sidewalk Chalk & Puppy Love.

Whewfta!  It's been another BUSY couple of weeks!  We've been busy with lots of graduations, holidays, birthdays, etc - but I'm glad we can find sometime to just hang out outside and play with some chalk.  =)

She is SUCH a collector!!  Anything, everything, into any type of container.  She totally loves it.  =)

And a few randoms, trying to get caught up on editing pictures (I am still super behind, these are from January, so those waiting on pictures of a certain event, they're coming, I promise!).  =)

Little Valentine

We decided we would try (try being the key word here) to do a little Valentine's Day Shoot with the munchkin.  Try is what we did.  Kayden doesn't like to sit still... LOL!

We tried props, but soon realized that we were going to be lucky to get one good photo, why were we pushing our luck expected at least 4?!  ;)  We tried food ... not very cute for a photo prop... 

There goes the bow, like always.

And just like that, the photo shoot was over for the day ... but cuddling with daddy is still cute!

Round 2.

She's the cutest thing if I do say so myself.  If you disagree I'd have to say you're crazy, or blind, or both.

;)

And after all that photo sesh stuff Kayden had to take some pictures herself, duh.

"Cheeeeeese"

Habits.

Alright - now we're caught up and back to current day where penguin doesn't leave Kayden's side.

I love how she holds her little wing like this =).

(Even though she's throwing a fit because we took her suckie out to take a couple pictures.  That thing is not nearly as cute nor accepted into photo shoots, as penguin is.)

And one of her favorite activities lately - coloring.  We've had quite the time trying to teach her what is acceptable to color on.  (Yes, we've already had wall, couch, computer, books, and movie case incidents...)  In these pictures she's coloring on an old kohl's coupon ... we soon learned that it was not a good idea to give her 'whatever we don't need' to color on because that was apparently confusing ... so that has stops and we've moved onto coloring books, bought and home-made ;-).  But she's catching on...lol

She's super hard to get pictures of her doing something candid now.  She absolutely loves the camera and as soon as she see's it, much less hears the shutter click, she's already hopping up to say cheese:

But sometime's she'll still let me get a few, if I take a suffice number of her while saying cheese...

I love this one!! :

She always grabs any camera she finds (our little one is shock proof, whew.  and she's happy with the flip in it's hard case) and puts it up to her eyes and walks around saying cheeeeeeeeeese.  I've been trying to get a picture of that... but hopefully soon =).

She's getting SO big!  We took her to the Dr. last week and they said she's the size of a two year old!  (She won't be two for 5 more months!! =( .. which really is already to fast for me, but she's already the size of a two-year-old?!?!  Noooo ... too fast, too fast!!)  They said she's doing great, and so smart and friendly (duh, we already knew that ;-p).  I'm so proud of her, more and more every day.  She's started "reading" a LOT lately too.  She'll grab a book and just reeead and read, and Dominic and I just look at each other and smile.  Can't believe she's ours!  <3

Blocks & Uncle.

(Last of last November lol.)  She's so funny how particular about things sometimes.  She loves to collect and put things all in one place, and fit them on there just right.

I don't think she could fit one more block on there! =)  She's my little smart.

And a few playing with Uncle Chris.